Researchers fed 10 pregnant cows different amounts of flaxseed up to 7 percent of their daily diet to pinpoint the optimal amount needed to increase their milk s omega-3 content.
At six pounds of flaxseed daily the saturated fat in the cow s milk dropped 18 percent while polyunsaturated fatty acids and omega-3 levels rose drastically.
In fact the cows produced milk with 70 percent more omega-3 fatty acids than bovines that didn t eat flaxseed.
or corn so if this practice goes mainstream expect to pay a premium for any dairy products that come from flaxseed-eating cows.
 Grass-fed cows usually aren jacked t up with steroids and antibiotics. They also tend to get a bit more exercise than their grain-fed counterparts.
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Pacelle's most recent Op-Ed was American Running of the Bulls Not Much of a Thrill.
Animals such as cows on the other hand have specialized a stomach with four chambers to aid in the digestion of grass (a process called rumination.
With poor crops and possibly contaminated water sources they increasingly turned to cow's milk for sustenance making it a regular part of their diet.
#Why is Cow's Milk White? Milk is nature's buffet for babies providing all the nutrition a mammalian infant needs for early development outside the womb.
Cow's milk provides a range of nutrients for humans although intolerance to lactose a difficult-to-digest sugar is a common affliction.
They have also been found rummaging in the fodder of dairy cattle which they can contaminate with their droppings Sullivan said.
But today the Mayan forest is threatened once again this time by economic activities such as cattle ranching and agriculture.
when cleared for cattle oil palm soy or pulp production. And this pressure is only increasing with population growth and global demand for agricultural commodities.
Slaght and his colleagues R. J. Gutiã rrez and Sergei Surmach will detail their findings in the October issue of the journal Oryx.
Of those 538 were newborn calves. Last year the mortality event was especially severe with a record-breaking 116 whale deaths 113 of them calves.
Whale Album: Giants of the Deep in 2012 we lost nearly one-third of all calves born at the Peninsula said Mariano Sironi scientific director of the Instituto de Conservacion de Ballenas in Argentina.
Southern right whales have their first calf when they are nine years old on average. This means that it won't be until a decade from
now that we will see a significant reduction in the number of calves born as all of the female calves that died will not be contributing any new offspring to the population Sironi who is also an advisor to the Southern Right whale Health Monitoring program added in a statement.
Sironi and colleague Vicky Rowntree who is co-director of the monitoring program have studied a strange phenomena that could be stressing southern right whales.
and cause large deep lesions particularly on the backs of young 2-6 week-old calves the researchers said in a statement from WCS.
As a result right whale mothers and their calves are expending much precious energy during a time of year
One serving is considered one cup of cow's milk soy milk or yogurt; one and a half ounces of a hard cheese like Swiss or cheddar;
#Early Life Pain May Affect The next Generation A mom's painful early life experiences might influence her offspring's sensitivity to pain according to a new study of lambs and ewes.
To find out if these experiences affect the animals they split a group of 20 ewes into three groups.
The scientists found that ewes with an early traumatic experience of tail-docking or infection changed positions more often wagged their tails more
and had more contractions than ewes left alone in their early days. Exactly what these cues mean is difficult to interpret Mendl warned.
Next the researchers tested the lambs of the 20 ewes in the study for their sensitivity to discomfort.
The lambs from ewes that had had an early-life infection responded more promptly than the lambs born to ewes in the other groups.
and the manure of animals like cows chickens and pigs the researchers said. It's not clear exactly
Typical meals for a wolverine include large game like caribou moose and mountain goats; smaller animals like ground squirrels and rodents;
and wildebeest and these animals could spread the bacteria leading to new rounds of infections researchers say.
and 13 sites without carcasses to monitor the grazing activity of herbivores such as elephants wildebeest and zebras.
Zebra wildebeest and springbok (a small gazelle) were up to four times more likely to graze at a potentially infectious site where a zebra had died within the last year than at a random grassland patch nearby.
African lions eat large animals that they find in the grasslands including antelopes zebras and wildebeest.
Asiatic lions eat large animals as well such as goats nilgai chital sambhar and buffaloes. They are known also to eat smaller animals.
Most of a tiger's diet consists of large prey such as pigs deer rhinos or elephant calves.
Chupacabra means goat sucker in Spanish named so because it is said to drain the blood from animals such as goats chickens and other livestock.
The news and video footage of the small hairless caged animal went viral and left countless people scratching their heads wondering
because video of the creature broadcast on KAVU clearly shows the Ratcliffe chupacabra doesn't have the anatomical mouth features that would allow it to suck blood from goats or anything else.
and therefore physically prevents them from sucking the blood out of goats or anything else.
Put it in a pen with a goat or chicken and see if it attacks them
This is due primarily to lack of worldwide research and data on the species. Platypuses swim with their front feet and steer with their tails and back feet.
Nevertheless they could be used as a supplement for cattle feed. The synthetic materials in the diapers could aid the mushrooms'growth possibly by providing air pockets
Pretty landscape In the past scientists imagined that the now-vast Arctic tundra was once a brown grassland steppe that teemed with wooly mammoths rhinos and bison.
and fossilized poop or coprolites of eight Pleistocene beasts woolly mammoths rhinos bison and horses found in museums throughout the world.
The findings also raise questions about modern grazers such as bison Craine said. If the ancient beasts dined on forbs it's possible these wildflowerlike plants play a bigger role in the diet of modern bison as well he said.
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leg of this year's Red Bull Air Race World Championship. Reaching speeds of up to 250 mph (400 km h) the planes'pilots are accomplished aerobatics experts from around the world.
Whoever wins the race will be aided by advanced light aviation engineering according to Mike Mangold an American aerobatics pilot who won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship twice
Air racing fans can watch a full-length broadcast of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from the Texas Motor Speedway on Sept. 15 at 7: 30 pm ET
UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.
Nearly 5 million people have tuned in to the explore. org critter cam located on Hog Island in Bremen Maine to watch some of the first chicks of the season hatch.
See livestream of the newly-hatched osprey chicks The Hog Island ospreys typically spend their winter in South america.
when converting vegetable mass into protein as pigs and five times as efficient as cattle. In addition the husbandry associated with raising grasshoppers is compared relatively simple to that needed for cattle chickens
or hogs and their rapid reproduction rate and short life cycle allows a stable and continuous harvest.
Finally it would be much easier to transport insects to Mars than to send large animals.
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As for thrills nothing beat taking icy dunks on hot afternoons in a big windmill-fed tank where a rancher stored water for his cattle.
Manure from horses cows pigs or chickens has the nitrogen phosphorus and other goodies that plants need.
#and beef cattle raisers in Paraguay Kenya and Tanzania suffered economically as importing meat came to be seen as high risk in the initial panic about the source.
The Army can tax the cow in my barn The Duchy can tax the rest of my farm The landlord taxes my own left arm...
The Burger Joint for example trumpets that its burgers are fed from grain cattle; all natural no hormones fillers or antibiotics and most importantly they run free in the fields.
Shake Shack's menu boasts that its burgers are 100-percent all-natural Angus beef vegetarian-fed humanely raised and source-verified.
and nutrition as well as a cow's well-being is whether cattle end their brief lives in crowded confined feedlots eating genetically modified corn and soybeans or spend all of their time on pasture eating grass and other forage crops
which is evolved what they eating. Feedlot cattle are prone to getting sick so producers routinely feed them antibiotics
which also serve to accelerate growth. After they are weaned from their mothers and grazed on grass most cattle are shipped to feedlots to fatten them up quickly on a grain diet.
If you're going to eat beef you want the grass-fed variety. A 2010 study in Nutrition Journal reviewed three decades of research comparing the nutritional profiles of grass-fed
and grain-fed cattle. It turns out that grass-fed beef has lower levels of unhealthy fats and higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids
Free-range grass-fed cattle may be slightly better for your health than those that are grain-finished at feedlots
Beef cattle and stored cattle manure also are responsible for 18 percent of U s. methane emissions which have nearly 25 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide.
Beef cattle were responsible for more than half of the emissions followed by dairy cattle at 17 percent. That doesn't let Americans off the hook however.
And those exports would displace exports from Latin american beef producers reducing incentives to cut down tropical rainforests for cattle pasture land.
Lowering demand he added also could help cut production here at home where beef cattle account for more than a third of all U s. agricultural heat-trapping emissions.
They do indeed drink blood mainly from cattle and deer but they don't suck blood like the legends say Rather they make A v-shaped cut and then lick up the blood according to the San diego Zoo.
Earlier in April drone handlers in Zion national park in Utah were caught harassing a herd of bighorn sheep with a robotic flyer.
So are its cheetahs and aurochs and wildebeests. But animal bones and images of animals on ancient artifacts reveal
the golden jackal the ibex the Barbary goat the Egyptian fox the Dorcas gazelle the wild ass the striped hyena and the slender-horned gazelle
But the pig-deers miniature buffalos and other creatures depicted by prehistoric artists in Indonesia could change that narrative.
#Prehistoric Paintings in Indonesia May be Oldest Cave Art Ever Paintings of miniature buffalos warty pigs
and hyenas the animals represented in Sulawesi include fruit-eating pig-deer called babirusas Celebes warty pigs and midget buffalos also known as anoas.
The Native americans who once hunted this region lit fires to burn off dead vegetation encouraging new growth that attracted bison and other large game.
Modern ranchers also use controlled burns to clear soil for younger more nutritious plants for their cattle Earth Observatory reported.
Gray wolves usually eat large prey such as moose goats sheep and deer. Normally the pack of wolves will find the weakest
when it teamed up with humane organizations to announce groundbreaking reforms in the way chickens pigs cows
and locking egg-laying hens veal calves and mother pigs in tiny cages for their entire lives.
A powerful swarm of bees could even kill a thin-skinned calf. Researchers had discovered already that elephants produce a rumble like a gravelly baritone growl in response to the threat of bees.
Aircraft Drops Retardant on Oregon Fire (Photo) Zooming low and tight against a cloud of billowing smoke an MD-87 air tanker drops retardant on the Two Bulls fire
The Two Bulls fire began as two separate burns on June 7 according to Central Oregon Fire Information.
The Oregon Department of Forestry Incident Management Team estimates that the Two Bulls has cost $2. 4 million to fight so far.
along with Hansen's photograph by NASA's Earth Observatory shows a view of the Two Bulls fire from space.
Cows Toot Out Most Methane A new snapshot of U s. methane emissions in 2004 shows livestock primarily cattle and pigs were the country's worst gas emitters at the time.
In 2004 cows pigs and other livestock expelled more than 13 million tons (12.2 megatons) of methane from both manure
or hunting goats gazelles pigs and deer the authors write in the March issue of the journal Antiquity.
The bone wand was carved likely from the rib of an auroch the wild ancestor of cows
The big cats even seem to prefer eating domestic dogs in areas where cows goats and other farm animals are plentiful according to a new study.
Domestic goats for example accounted for just 11 percent of the mass of the big cats'meals even though they were seven times more abundant than dogs in the study area.
Their findings were published today (Sept. 11) in the journal Oryx. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.
Cow Urine Promoted for Health Benefits Though it may never move into the mainstream an alternative medicine promoted by a Hindu group in India is getting some attention:
But not any old cow urine will do according to the followers of the hardline Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) sect only the urine collected from a female virgin cow will suffice
Cow urine offers a cure for around 70 to 80 incurable diseases like diabetes Om Prakash of the RSS Cow Protection Department told Reuters. All are curable by cow urine. 7
Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe Cow urine soda? Though Westerners may find the practice surprising if not outright disgusting the therapeutic use of cow urine has a long history in India particularly in Ayurvedic medicine an ancient health care tradition that has been practiced in India for at least 5000 years.
For people who would rather not drink their cow urine straight the RSS has developed a cow-urine-based soft drink called Gomutra Ark.
The drink is promoted as a healthy alternative to Coca-cola Pepsi and other soft drinks which are seen as part of a wider problem resulting from corrupt Western influences.
We refer to gau ark (cow urine) as gau jal (cow water) as it has immense potential to cure various diseases Prakash told The Telegraph.
however are less enthusiastic about the health benefits of drinking cow urine especially when anticancer properties are claimed.
I think I'm perfectly comfortable in saying that I'm aware of no data that cow's urine
And a 2013 study in the International Brazilian Journal of Urology claimed that distilled cow urine might help to prevent the development of kidney stones in rats.
By comparing ground-based studies and in-space observations of solar system's mysterious energy ribbon which was discovered first by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) in 2009 scientists are learning more details about the conditions
Photos and Images from NASA's IBEX Spacecraft What I always have been trying to do was to establish a clear connection between the very high-energy cosmic rays we're seeing from the ground
and what IBEX is seeing study leader Nathan Schwadron a physicist at the University of New hampshire told Space. com. Previously maps from ground-based observatories showed researchers that clusters of cosmic rays extremely high-energy
particles that originate from supernovas are correlated with the IBEX ribbon. The ribbon is roughly perpendicular to the interstellar magnetic field
Voyager 1's measurements of the magnetic field from the edge of interstellar space show a starkly different direction of the magnetic field inferred in the IBEX ribbon Schwadron said.
It seems like we now have good independent confirmation that the IBEX ribbon is ordered by the interstellar magnetic field
and place but IBEX's data is collected and averaged across vast distances so that could also lead to discrepancies.
Road Melts from Yellowstone Volcano's Heat Cows really let loose: In a shocking new study findings show livestock cattle and pigs supply a larger percentage of methane to our atmosphere than previously thought.
According to data from 2004 livestock contributed more to the greenhouse effect than oil and gas operations.
Cows Toot Out Most Methane Magnetic field is weakening: Data from Swarm an ESA satellite array indicates Earth's magnetic field is weakening.
The 1-and 2-month-old woolly mammoth calves which were discovered in different portions of Siberia choked on mud after falling into water more than 40000 years ago new research suggests.
The 1-month-old calf mummy named Lyuba was discovered in 2007 by a reindeer herder on the banks of a frozen river on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia.
In addition to painting a grim picture of the mammoth calves'last moments the research also provides some insights into how they developed.
Livestock Disease A sip of unpasteurized sheep or goat's milk may have spelled doom for a medieval Italian man.
and sheep and goat herding have long histories in the region. Brucellosis is called also Mediterranean fever.
#Clever Goats Can Learn Quickly Goats might be smarter than once thought it turns out they can quickly learn
The findings may help explain goats'ability to adapt to a variety of environments. In the study the researchers trained a group of goats to retrieve food from a box by pulling a lever
and then lifting it. It took the goats 12 tries on average to perform the trick.
I wasn't surprised that they managed to do the work. I was surprised that they got it so quickly said study author Alan Mcelligott of Queen Mary University of London.
Goat Enthusiastically Completes Cognitive Tests The goats'ability to retrieve food from the box may mean that the animals are generally good at problem solving Mcelligott said a skill that could come handy
The research team tested the goats'ability to remember the task after one month and again after 10 months.
The findings may help researchers understand why goats adapt easily to extreme environments. Wild goats live all over the world from the hot and dry Galapagos islands to the cold and wet islands off the west coast of Scotland Mcelligott said.
They seem to be really good at colonizing these environments and doing really well in them Mcelligott told Live Science.
#Explorers Eat Fried Tarantulas at Black-tie Gala NEW YORK Goat testicles earthworms python and jellyfish were on the menu here at the Waldorf Astoria hotel Saturday night (March 15).
A small study of hog workers in North carolina found that many carried staph bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus)
In the new study which was described in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine this month 22 hog workers swabbed the inside of their noses several times over the course of 14 days.
Some of the workers still had the bacteria in their noses even after they spent four days off work and away from the hog farm.
and even into hospitals if the bacteria linger in the workers'noses after they leave the hog operation the researchers said.
if this is mainly a workplace hazard associated with hog farming or is it a threat to public health at large study leader Christopher Heaney an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health said in a statement.
and heights on the head writes Jolanda Bos an archaeologist working on the Amarna Project in an article recently published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.
Bos is leading the hairstyle research and the woman with 70 extensions leaves her puzzled.
Whether or not the woman had styled her hair like this for her burial only is one of our main research questions said Bos in an email to Live Science.
Many of the other skulls Bos analyzed also had hair extensions. One skull had made extensions of gray and dark black hair suggesting multiple people donated their hair to create extensions.
Hairy discoveries As Bos analyzed a selection of 100 recently excavated skulls (of which 28 still had hair) from the Armana cemetery she noticed the people who lived in the ancient city had a wide variety of hair types.
This is of course one of the answers we are still trying to find from the record said Bos in the email.
and of three strands mostly 1 cm 0. 4 inches wide with strands of approximately 0. 5 cm 0. 2 inches when tightly braided Bos writes in the journal article.
Braids were often not more than 20 cm 7. 9 inches long leaving the hair at shoulder length approximately Bos added.
Fat was used to help create all the hairstyles Bos found something that would have helped keep the hair in one piece after death.
what kind of hair coloring was used on this hair it only seems that way macroscopically said Bos in the email.
This woman among other ancient Egyptians may have dyed her hair for the same reason as why people dye their hair today in order not to show the gray color Bos said.
#Extreme Abuse of Calves Leads to Immediate Shuttering of N. J. Slaughterhouse (Op-Ed) Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.
and the continuing mistreatment of downer calves in this case at the Catelli Bros. slaughter plant in suburban Monmouth County N. J. Following the USDA's action The HSUS publicly released its materials.
Our undercover investigator documented calves being forced to rise to their feet by men who wrapped the calves'tails around their hands lifting the entire weight of the calf by this appendage.
One calf with a broken leg was dragged by a chain around his neck and other calves were struck kicked pulled by their ears
and sprayed with water. The plant manager warned workers not to take some of these actions
You may recall the 2009 HSUS investigation of Bushway a calf slaughter plant in Grand Isle Vt. where we found calves too weak to walk being kicked shocked thrown
That case prompted The HSUS to file a petition with the USDA asking that the agency close a loophole in the regulations that allowed these downed calves to be set aside to see
The USDA requires euthanasia for downed adult cattle at slaughter plants but the rule excludes calves.
Where humane handling is concerned the problems are the same no bulls cows or calves should be subjected to this treatment regardless of their age or gender.
Our investigator captured still-conscious calves trying to right themselves on the bleed line. The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA) for which The HSUS works to secure substantial funding each fiscal year requires that animals be unconscious before they are shackled
and hung upside down so their throats can be slit. Our investigation also found that some calves undergoing shechita (ritual slaughter) remained conscious for more than two minutes after their necks were opened up.
Unfortunately the HMSA doesn't specify how soon ritually-slaughtered animals should reach an unconscious state.
Bernie Rollin distinguished professor of animal science at Colorado State university watched our video and wrote Of all the atrocity videos
The treatment of the calves at Catelli outraged Rollin enough to write: The conclusion to be drawn from this video data is self-evident.
It took an HSUS undercover investigation released in 2008 to prompt USDA a year later to act on our longstanding demand that downed dairy cows not be abused.
That investigation at the Hallmark slaughter plant in southern California showed spent dairy cows being shocked water-boarded
It's been more than four years since our Bushway investigation about downer calf abuses. Our Catelli Bros. investigation shows that similar abuses are still occurring.
and in this case we see a glaring deficiency in the law that needs to be corrected regarding the abuse of downer calves.
The HSUS continues to pressure the USDA to close the loophole that allows downer calves to be slaughtered for human consumption.
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